SALARY · EDUCATIONAL, GUIDANCE, AND CAREER COUNSELORS AND ADVISORS · MISSISSIPPI

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors salary in Mississippi

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors in Mississippi: $58,710 a year. The mean is listed too, so you can see when a small group of high earners pulls the average upward.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$58,710

$28 per hour at the median · That is $5,620 (8.7 percent) below the national median of $64,330 for this occupation.

$57,380Mean annual salary
$28Mean hourly wage
$2,620People employed in this job in Mississippi

Salary range

25th: $46,430Median: $58,71075th: $66,220
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$46,430
Median (50th percentile)$58,710
75th percentile$66,220
Mean$57,380

The middle half of workers earned from $46,430 to $66,220 a year. Do not read the percentile range as good versus bad jobs. It mostly reflects experience, hours, employer type and local demand. A new starter near the 25th percentile and a veteran near the 75th can both be fairly paid for their stage.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$47,737 a year
$3,978 a month
Federal tax $4,865 · FICA $4,491 · State tax $1,616

Caveat: the Mississippi DOR page also contains a stale 4.4 percent line beside the explicit 2026 row at 4 percent, so re-check against the final 2026 Form 80-105 instructions.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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